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William "Bill" Busiek, WGBH Engineer William Busiek was a notable and innovative radio engineer involved with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and pioneer FM radio station, WGBH 89.7 MHz Boston (W-Great Blue Hill). Among the firsts he pioneered he pioneered were the first stereo broadcast (using two FM radio stations), first quadraphonic broadcast (using two stereo FM stations) and other exciting radio firsts. Bill was a maritime radio officer prior to his work in radio... Topics: wgbh, busiek, radio, engineer, engineering

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Patterns to make your own Maritime Radio Room 12 hour clock. Files from Dan Zeitlan, K2YWE and David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA. N1EA's files are vector artwork which can be opened in vector art program or PDF reader. The K2YWE clock is sized in the pdf for the Ikea RUSCH clock, which is currently 1.99 USD online. (Early 2018) There is also a file called marclock.pdf which is a typical marine clock of the same type as the Radio Room clock, but without the silent period sectors of red, or red and... Topics: clock, radio, radio room, morse code, amateur radio

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Society of Wireless Pioneers The Society of Wireless Pioneers (SOWP) is dedicated to the collection and preservation of the history of communications, particularly radio and wireless telegraphy. This page contains the Sparks Journal published by the Society of Wireless Pioneers from 1977 through 1986. The Society was founded in 1968 by William A. Breniman, W6BE. Click an image to view the Sparks Journal. You are welcome to download the Sparks Journal for offline viewing. The Sparks Journal is... Topics: radio, radio history, radiotelegraphy, sowp

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Instructograph was a mechanical device that provided instruction for learning Morse Code. This is a software version of the instrument. This is an Instructograph Simulator which was written by Ted Wagner Topics: Morse Code, Instructograph

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SOS Fire in Engine Room, Abandon Ship! ms PRINSENDAM October 4, 1980, shows what international cooperation can accomplish, USAF, USCG, Canadian Armed Forces, EMTs from Sitka, Alaska, and the US and other Merchant Marines combined resources to accomplish a miracle. 535 people saved from life boats with no fatalities from chilly waters of Gulf of Alaska. Topics: ms Prinsendam, SOS, Passenger Ship, Merchant Vessel, miracle, n1ea@arrl.net

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W4FOK MILL Program. Teaches American and International Morse Code. File is a zip file of an executable DOS file. The program can be run by using DOS Box http://www.dosbox.com/ under Windows, Mac OS, Linux and other operating systems. The Mill Present circumstances prevent the improved version of "The Mill" from being posted as was peviously stated. Until the new version becomes available, the older version will continue to be available and will be supported. "The Mill"... Topics: morse, code, w4fok, telegraphy

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WBZ 1030 kHz Medium Wave DX Reception as received from mid-Pacific and from Australia. The receiver on a US Navy ship was a R-390A, which is a triple conversion 36 vacuum tube (valve) receiver. The receiver in Australia is unknown but the antenna is nearly a mile of insulated copper wire that was disbursed by using a garden hose reel and laid on top of the grass in the winter. :-)favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: wbz, dx, "medium wave", "long distance reception"

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DAVID H. SMITH of HAWKES BAY, New Zealand has collected a series of recordings of Maritime and Aviation More code. Mr. Smith holds Post Master General certification as radio officer and is amateur radio operator ZL2WT, G3VBJ, ZL2BBB. CW operator. Fists member # 9067. Ex Merchant Navy Radio Officer. Member of the ROA (Radio Officers' Association). Member of New Zealand Vintage Radio Society. Hobby is researching the history of maritime wireless telegraphy. Presently restoring a working replica...favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: "maritime morse", "500 khz", "500 kc", radiotelegraphy, sos,... Source: On-Air recordings

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A live recording of the wireless telegraphy (WT) transmissions in Morse code on 500 kHz and other MF frequencies from the Royal Mail Steamship "ss QUEEN MARY" on her last eastbound trans-Atlantic voyage in 1967 as recorded by Westinghouse Radio (Group W) engineer and former Radio Officer, Arthur Last Eastbound Trans-Atlantic Voyage of "Queen Mary/GBTT" - 1967 - R/O Arthur C. Goodnow, (W1DM). Topics: Goodnow, W1DM, "queen mary", gbtt, wt, "500 kHz", "500 kc/s"

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JJY shortwave TX at 5/8/10MHz finally terminated on 0300UTC 31-MAR-2001 (that was 12:00pm in JST). Formerly 2.5MHz and 15MHz were also on the air. JJY longwave TX at 40kHz from Fukushima (yes, approx. 15km from the damaged Dai-ichi nuclear reactor, still have operational difficulties) and 60kHz from Kyushu have been on the air now (40kHz since 1999, 60kHz since 2001). Radio clocks nationwide are in sync. Japanese Wikipedia article about JJY: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/JJY JST information page... Topics: "time signals", +radio, +japan, +jjy, n1ea

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An early recording of spark and ICW - Interrupted continuous wave signals with narration. First signal is NBD the Navy's big station at Otter Cliffs, Maine. I was given this recording by Ric, VK7RO - who tells me of the history of the recording. I told him that it probably is a recording done by the AWA as a recreation of spark by operators who were in their senior years but who were there when it happened. Ric, VK7RO relates: The tape was given to me by Richard, VK7RZ and came from... Topics: NBD, WIM, WCC

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Pietro Begali, famous Morse key maker using his wonderful Intrepid semi-automatic key as received at amateur radio station N1EA located in Green Harbor, Massachusetts, USA 31 March 2012 on the frequency band of 14 MHz. Topics: i2rtf, "pietro begali", "intrepid", "morse code", bruna

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Reception of HS0AC on August 29, 2012 on 21 MHz of Finn Jensen at the key as received by N1EA in Massachusetts. N1EA is using a side swiper and a semi-automatic McElroy key. Morse code. Topics: oz1het, hs0ac, n1ea, "side swiper", sideswiper, "mcelroy", key, "morse...

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This is a recording of the close down message from ITT for Amagansett Radio/WSL followed by the August 4, 1984 0150 GMT Traffic List giving call signs of ships for which Amagansett Radio had messages. The close down time is given at 04 August 1984 at 0401 GMT which would have been 04 August 1984 at 0001 EDST or in about 2 hours 10 minutes from the start of this traffic list at 0150 GMT. The station was located near Southhampton, Long Is., NY. Transmitters were located at Brentwood (HF) and...favoritefavoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 1 reviews ) Topics: Amagansett, Radio, WSL, Brentwood, Southhampton, ITT, ITT/Mackay, Marine, "500 kHz",...

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Maritime Morse Coast Station Markers submitted by Radio Officer S.J. "Joe" Prewitt, W0TUT of Panama Beach City, Florida (Silent Key on August 23, 2017.) You will hear the high frequency - HF - markers used by coastal wireless Morse Code telegraphy stations world-wide. Stations all over the world were recorded. These signals were sent when the station was listening for calls from ships on the high frequency bands. When the coast station was occupied passing messages with other... Topics: WT, "Coast Station", "Morse Code", markers, HF

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Recordings of the Urgent broadcast and later SOS broadcast made by ms Prinsendam which was on fire and burning out of control due to a fire in the engine room in the Gulf of Alaska. Chief Radio Officer, Jack van der Zee (he was from Beek, Netherlands) on the Netherlands Antilles registered cruise ship "ms Prinsendam" on October 4, 1980. He sent this to United States Coast Guard Communications Station Kodiak, Alaska (COMMSTA KODIAK/NOJ). COMMSTA KODIAK advised him that due to the late...favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 4 reviews ) Topics: SOS, Prinsendam, PJTA, "Netherlands Lion", "De Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw"...

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Howard Harvey, most often called "Tex" took his Radio Officers license before the U.S. Commerce Department and lied about his age and obtained a job as a radiotelegraph operator on a barge travelling the Erie Canal. He had been using this Vibroplex Blue Racer made in 1912 for over 75 years. He would often tell me that he had a "Lake Erie Swing" and he did as he learned that particular method of sending while on the Lake Erie Canal, but I would correct him being much too... Topics: "Lake Erie Swing", w0bmu,ab5ty,"macalee...

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Recordings of Galveston Radio / KLC supplied by Radio Officer Richard Monjure. The first recording is KLC WX (Weather Broadcast) and traffic list as sent on 13,038 kHz. The second recording is KLC with traffic list and working ships. Topics: KLC, Galveston Radio, "Richard Monjure", "500 kHz", marine, Morse, recordings

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In the middle 1980s, former United States Coast Guard Radioman and well known radio amateur, Edward A. McCarthy, W1YT was tuning the 7.0 MHz amateur radio bands at his amateur radio station in Florida when he came upon a conversation between two amateurs using continuous wave (CW) Morse radiotelegraphy. Since a tape recorder was nearby, he decided to record the conversation between David J. Ring, Jr., N1EA/MM (Maritime Mobile) who was sailing as Radio Officer in the Merchant Marine on the...favoritefavoritefavoritefavorite ( 2 reviews ) Topics: Morse code, bug, vibroplex, storm, rain, "radio officer", ship, QSO, W1YT, N1EA

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A recording of KPH San Francisco Radio's annual Night of Nights when KPH returns to the marine radio telegraphy bands on the anniversary of the day they closed July 12, 1999. This recording is of Richard Dillman, or RD as he is known world-wide over the marine telegraphy frequencies. Topics: kph, rca, "san francisco", radio, radiotelegraphy, marine, wireless, ship, "500...

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WILLIAM B GOULD III, Radio Pioneer - amateur radio call signs 1NP, W1NP, K2NP Born on March 14, 1902. Radio Engineer, Radio Officer, USA Flag, US Army until retirement. He made a series of tape recordings of 500 kc/s in 1966 during March. He was very much a pioneer not only for his being the first Negro which is now called black, radio engineer of a radio station and radio officer at sea, but for his visionary work with communications and electronics with United States Army. He retired in 1969... Topics: "morse code", ship, "coast station", marine, CW, black, negro, radio, wireless,...

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A recording made in France by Erik Ludwig, F9LT (originally PA0LU) of 500 kHz ship-to-shore and ship-to-ship Morse Wireless Telegraphy made His friend Edward "Ned" Raub relates further: He said he'd caught "everything from TA to VO1." or from Turkey TAH to Newfoundland, Canada with stations like St. Anthony Coast Guard Radio. For my part (says Ned Raub), I recorded U.S coast stations, Faroes, Oslofjord, much else between dusk and 00 GMT here. I sent two micro-cassettes to... Topics: "morse code", ship, radio, telegraphy, "500 kHz", "SOS",...

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"Saga of Telegraphy: Can'st Thou Send Lightnings?" A brief history of Morse telegraphy in sound. Written by J. Ralph Graham, Communications Chief "US New and World Report", whose actual Morse transmissions are recorded throughout the recording, first using a hand Morse key sending and Morse sounder reception starting in 1844 with a reenactment of the very first public Morse code sending by artist and inventor Samuel F.B. Morse in Washington, DC to Alfred Vail in Baltimore,... Topics: ASIN: B00540DYKE, A282994, telegraphy, sounder, morse, "j. ralph graham", "saga of... Source: J. Ralph Graham, by permission

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A recording of the last day of operation of the New York Times NYC-Washington, DC Times Bureau leased line in 1951. Published by J. Ralph Graham with added introduction by David J. Ring, Jr. who converted the file to electronic format. Side 1 is a recording of a news story sent by telegraphers Jack Goulette and Ralph Cahall over The New York Times Morse wire to the Times telegraph office in New York, at a speed up to 60 words a minute. Dan Reeves was the receiver in New York. Side 2 is a news... Topics: "new york times", morse, "leased line", "j., american ralph graham",...